Book review: Waking the Dead

I recently was casually walking through the local Christian book store for no particularly good reason – getting away from the ‘routine’ – and stumbled across this book. I have not read any of Eldridge’s works in the past, but had heard of them from several people…
What really intrigued me was the title of the [...]

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A piece of Mac history.

For those who have been around in the Mac world for a while, give this a try… It is by no means complete, but hey.
Controls are ‘j’ and ‘l’

The interesting thing to note is that the entire program is written using 100% HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Not JAVA) and is less then 750k, which today [...]

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For the Mac faithful…

Funny, how Macs are almost a kind of religion isn’t it?
When someone moves from PC to Mac, we call it a ‘conversion’
Having been ‘converted’ are now ’saved’ from the ‘evil’…
Someone who is trying to get a PC user to use a Mac is ‘evangelizing’.
Those who have used Macs for a long time, are called ‘faithful’.
I [...]

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Moving from HTML to CSS

What’s wrong with HTML?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Then why use CSS?
HTML is just that – HyperText Markup Language. It was built to allow formatting (markup) of the plain text circulating the then internet at it’s time – the first major step away from the console. As such it was not designed to handle layout… As the www [...]

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American Heritage Weekend

Some of you already know I am part of a reenactment group called We Make History. This weekend marks our large yearly event: The American Heritage Weekend. Things are looking quite promising, and hopeflly all will turn out quite well.
On the downside, my musket will not arrive in time for the event… ( I recently [...]

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